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Technology
Make good data great
Flashy it's not, but a well-oiled data architecture project can pay dividends.
(Posted February 4, 2008)
FCW Forum: Will you be ready for IPv6?
There are less than six months to go until agencies need to implement the new IP on their networks, but NIST only recently issued a final draft profile of the conformance testing process vendors must go through.
(Posted January 25, 2008)
From the pages of Government Computer News
NOAA to track GPS satellitesThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has announced it will lead an international effort to pinpoint the locations of more than 40 Global Positioning System satellites orbiting the Earth. The project is aimed at ensuring the accuracy of GPS data used by the public and private sectors. Staff members at NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey (NGS) will use data collected at 10 analysis centers worldwide to analyze satellite orbit data during the…
(Posted January 21, 2008)
Open-source myth busters
Don’t let common misconceptions about freely distributed software derail your IT strategies
(Posted January 21, 2008)
Science 2.0 evolves
Online work space and collaboration tools change how scientists work together
(Posted November 5, 2007)
Technology briefs
World digital library construction under way; AsusTek to compete with MIT’s $100 laptop
(Posted October 29, 2007)
Technology briefs
Adobe PDF bug jeopardizes security
The Adobe PDF could be used to compromise a system running on Microsoft Windows XP, Adobe confirmed last week week. Remote code embedded in a PDF could be executed in Versions 8.1 and earlier of Adobe Reader, Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Elements. Adobe Acrobat 3D is also vulnerable. All those programs must be used in conjunction with Internet Explorer 7 to trigger the exploitation. According to the SANS Institute, which…
(Posted October 15, 2007)
PCs come full circle
Virtual desktop software is the latest spin on server-based PC computing
(Posted October 1, 2007)
My favorite BlackBerry sig
You always see those signature lines on the bottom of BlackBerry -- or iPhone -- messages. I've found my favorite.
(Posted October 1, 2007)
Tech briefs
DHS readies TWIC rollout
Agencies responsible for the Homeland Security Department's Transportation Worker Identity Credential (TWIC) expect to begin biometric enrollment for the permits by October, after the Sept. 18 release of technical specifications for the identity cards. The program to provide biometric credentials to workers at ports and other transport hubs has experienced multiple delays and cost overruns in the past four years, partly because of unsettled questions about biometric technologies. Paul Schneider, DHS' undersecretary for…
(Posted October 1, 2007)
DARPA leads new AI research
Computer scientists have long sought to develop computers that can match the subject expertise that humans acquire during a career or a lifetime. Despite intensive work with expert systems and other forms of artificial intelligence, researchers have discovered that building a computer that can learn like a person is more difficult that they expected. Now, with a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program called Bootstrapped Learning, the agency wants to generate renewed interest in achieving…
(Posted September 24, 2007)
Technology briefs
Watch list hobbled by data errors
Four years after the federal government launched the interagency Terrorist Screening Center and assigned it the daunting task of harmonizing more than a dozen separate watch lists, balky technology and quirky business practices still combine to introduce gaps and errors in the critical database. For example, several known or suspected terrorists were not properly identified in the Terrorist Screening Database, including 20 watch list records that were not made available…
(Posted September 24, 2007)
Letter: Voting systems get short shrift
The article titled "Voting under a cloud of suspicion" does not go far enough to detail the clear benefits of electronic voting systems or the technological evolution of voting systems in the past 100-plus years. The simple fact is that electronic voting systems provide the same or greater level of auditability. Rather than simply getting rid of the new technology, the question should be: How do we build the regulatory and administrative procedures around this new technology?
(Posted November 30, 2007)
Data organization and validation strategies
Creating standard data architectures is especially difficult for state and local governments that have been collecting information in various forms for decades or in some cases, even centuries, said Vivek Kundra, chief technology officer of the District of Columbia.
(Posted September 17, 2007)
Technology Briefs
EAC to release draft voting-system guidelines
The Election Assistance Commission expects to release a major revision to its Voluntary Voting System Guidelines for comment soon, beginning a process for approving a new set of standards that states can use to certify voting systems. The commission describes the new guidelines as a complete rewrite of standards adopted in 2005. Although voluntary, most states use the guidelines for certifying voting systems. They address the reliability, quality, usability, accessibility,…
(Posted September 17, 2007)
ITIL given a government spin
A new version of the popular IT self-help series offers advice tailored to the interests of the public-sector.
(Posted August 27, 2007)
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